APPENDIX E 



BIRDS OF LOWER PETCHORA. 



BEING AN APPENDIX TO THE PAPER IN ' THE IBIS ' * 



PUBLISHED PRIVATELY WITH THE AUTHORS' 



SEPARATES. 



BY H. SEEBOHM AND J. A. HARVIE-BROWN. 



SINCE the foregoing articles appeared in ' The Ibis ' we 

 have had an opportunity of working at some of the birds 

 mentioned in our catalogues, and in some instances we 

 have detected errors in the original identifications. We 

 are also in possession of important information respecting 

 the discoveries of later travellers, which in some cases 

 confirm and in others supplement our own observations. 

 The most important correction which we have to make 

 is in the name of the Pipit, which was examined by 

 Dresser, pronounced to be an undescribed species, and 

 named by him in the ' Birds of Europe ' Anthus seebohmi. 

 We regret to have to consign this name to the ' limbo ' of 

 synonyms. We have carefully compared our birds with 

 skins of Anthus gustavi, and are convinced of their 

 identity. They agree in the rich markings of the upper 

 parts, in the two more or less distinct whitish longitudinal 

 stripes on the back, in the wing formula, in the stout and 



* * The Ibis,' April, 1876, p. 216. 

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